📌 Note
In this article you can find a workflow example of how to automate post generation of every new article published, through connecting your RSS feed to Asters Autopilot.
Step by step guide
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Before starting this flow, please check the article "How to connect Asters API to Autopilot".
Once you have accessed Asters Autopilot, click on Trigger
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Then, click on RSS by Zapier
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Now, click on Choose trigger event
Then, select New item in Feed
Finally, click Continue
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Copy and paste the Feed URL you want to connect and click Continue
Finally, click on Test trigger
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Select New item in Feed C and click Continue with selected record
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Select Asters' App, chose the Create post event and access Asters account, check the article "How to connect Asters API to Autopilot"
📌 Note
Here you can choose within different options:
Add Label to Post, to add a label to the generated post
Change Post Status, to publish the post automatically
Create Post, to create a new post and save it as a draft
Remove Label to Post, to remove label to generated post
For the purposes of this example, let's select create post to generate posts and save them as a draft in the Asters calendar.
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Now, select the Asters' Workspace and the Social Account you want your posts to be created on
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If you want your post to use the same metadata image of your article, leave blank under Media URL
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Here you can chose how you want your caption to be, it can be a fixed Text, you could use Asters AI Text generation feature or, as we advise and do in this example, you can select a RSS parameter
In the case of RSS parameter, you can select the one you prefer, in this example the article description has been selected. This means that the post text will be made of the article description.
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You can also insert a Caption prefix (this passage is not mandatory, you can skip it if you don't want any Caption prefix to be used). In this example a Text Caption prefix has been written, using a call to action, such as "Read the article here".
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⚠️ Important
For your workflow to be successful it's mandatory that under Post Link you select True.
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Then, under Link URL, select Link
Here if you want, you could set Meta OG, Title and Description and all the UTMs in case you want to track this campaign
Finally, you can also insert an automated First Comment to all your posts, in this example the Text + Link option has been selected, with a call to action to visit the website
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Once you're done with setting up all your zaps, click on Continue
Here, you are asked to test that the flow is working correctly, click on test step
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One last step is required to activate the Auto-Publish feature of posts.
Click on the + symbol
Here select Asters again
Choose Change Post Status as the event and then Continue
Click on Post Id and select Create Post
Select ID with the Post Id code
Click on Post Status and Auto-Publish, finally click Continue
Then, click on Test step. Once the test is successful, click on Publish your Zap
When you Autopilot workflow is published you will see posts appearing in your Asters' Calendar
You can always click on the single posts to see the preview
